New technologies influence writing, triggering a redefinition of the relationship between writer-text-reader-critic and giving birth to a new contemporary fictional model, characterized by fragment organization, character crisis, dramatization of the epic and the lyric text, narrative crisis, a mixture of various aspects of language, exploration of diverse enunciative spaces. The digital era has become […]
Can the Fury of Harry Potter Fans Sway Studio Execs?
When Alan Horn, president of Warner Bros, announced that the studio would delay the release of the next Harry Potter film, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” he began receiving death threats from overzealous fans. An online petition has been signed by 45,000 fans and the studio has been bombarded by angry letters and e-mails. “A […]
Free market Economists Urge Post-Olympics Social and Political Reforms
For its foreign visitors, the Olympics seemed to be an introduction to all that free market forces have done to China since Opening Up and Reform began following Mao’s death (which was 32 years ago today, btw, and barely paid any attention). What does that mean? It led Thomas Friedman to write that American cities now look third world in comparison […]
Bulgaria, Macedonia: Rapprochement Through Literature
In my earlier GV article, Bulgaria, Macedonia: Blog Wars Over History, I outlined the contradictions between our two countries and their impact on the local blogosphere, which had become a kind of a battlefield for a never-ending blogging war. But it turned out that the Macedonian and Bulgarian bloggers are capable not only of constant enmity […]
Peru: Views Towards the Indigenous Protests
On Friday 22nd, Peruvian Congress revoked both controversial legislative decrees 1015 and 1073, that brought about the country’s native communities demonstrations, mainly those at the Northern rainforest. (See previous posts about this: (1,2) Nevertheless, the joy in these communities didn’t last too long after they learned that the government won’t enact this new regulation. Meanwhile, it was also […]
How to Successfully Navigate Your Business through an Economic Downturn
An economic downturn is a phase of the business cycle in which the economy as a whole is in decline.This phase basically marks the end of the period of growth in the business cycle. Economic downturns are characterized by decreased levels of consumer purchases (especially of durable goods) and, subsequently, reduced levels of production by […]
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